Oxygen On Mars

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  AI-Powered Robot Chemist Finds Molecule To Make Oxygen On Mars

  The robot chemist worked on the samples from Mars for six weeks without any human intervention and synthesised 243 different molecules.

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  NASA's MOXIE Experiment Completes Mission, Successfully Generates Oxygen On Mars

  American space agency NASA on Wednesday announced that its oxygen-generating experiment that accompanied the Perseverance rover has successfully completed its mission and generated oxygen on the Red Planet.

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  NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Diverse Set Of Organic Molecules On Mars

  Organic molecules are the key building blocks of life on Earth that are made primarily of carbon and hydrogen and often other elements like oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulphur.

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  Plasma-Based Method Utilises Carbon Dioxide on Mars to Make Oxygen

  A team of researchers has produced a new plasma-based method through which the resources available in the Martian environment can be utilised to make oxygen. The method would not only allow astronauts to breathe on the planet during future Mars missions, but could also help make fuel, building materials, and fertilisers there.

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  NASA Extracts Breathable Oxygen From Thin Martian Air

  NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said.

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  In A First, NASA's Perseverance Rover Makes Oxygen On Mars

  NASA's Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday.

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  Mars Likely to Have Enough Oxygen to Support Life: Study

  Up to now, it had been assumed that the trace amounts of oxygen on Mars were insufficient to sustain even microbial life.

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  Mars Likely To Have Enough Oxygen To Support Life, Finds Study

  Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday.

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  NASA's Inflatable Greenhouse Could Feed Astronauts on Mars

  "The new approach uses plants to scrub carbon dioxide, while providing food and oxygen," said Ray Wheeler, lead scientist at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

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  Manganese Oxide Indicates Mars Was Once Earth-Like

  NASA's Curiosity rover has observed high levels of manganese oxides in Martian rocks which indicates that higher levels of atmospheric oxygen once existed on Red Planet.

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  Atomic Oxygen Detected in Martian Atmosphere

  Atomic oxygen affects how other gases escape Mars and therefore has a significant impact on the planet's atmosphere.

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  Mars Mission: Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere

  Scientists have detected atomic oxygen in the Martian atmosphere for the first time since the last observation 40 years ago.

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  NASA's Mars Rover Spots Loads Of Silica, Bolsters Water Presence

  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found mysterious rocks rich in silica - a rock-forming chemical combining the elements silicon and oxygen and commonly seen on Earth as quartz.

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  Nasa Looks to Make Oxygen on Mars Using Microbes

  "This is a possible way to support a human mission to Mars, producing oxygen without having to send heavy gas canisters."

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  Oxygen on Mars to Make Human Missions 'Lighter'

  Future human missions to the Red Planet may not have to carry heavy oxygen cylinders with them. Scientists are working on ways to produce the life gas on Mars itself.